Qtrax wants to give away songs via Peer to Peer networks and pay RIAA member companies royalties from revenue earned from ads. Their layer will be avaliable to download shortly – which means that someone is running a decent PR campaign behind the scenes. They are making a big deal about the being Mozilla based, …
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Automattic gets some more cash
Automattic, creators of WordPress, raised $29.5m on the 22nd of Jan. The cool thing is that alongside 3 very lucky VC firms is venerable NYTimes, who use WordPress as their blogging platform. Amazingly enough WordPress managed with just $1.1m of raised capital so far – not bad for a company that served 3.2 billion pages …
WordPress is dominant
Thinking of starting a blog? WordPress gives yet another reason to blog with them – 3 Gb of storage. This is up from a paltry 50MB, which essentially meant that you had to use photo servers from another site, such as flickr. WordPress is simple to set up, trivially easy to use, and free. You …
Apple is clueless about international people
International people are those who travel a lot, or live between two different countries. This tends to happen a lot in Europe, and is just generally more and more common with the cheap price of travel these days. Indeed there were over 800m international tourist arrivals in 2006 – clearly not a trivial market. Steve …
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Set WiFi free
Over on Kiwiblog DPF guiltily confesses to using someone elses open Wireless connection for some internet time, and a trivial amount of data. There are several things wrong with this picture: 1: It isn’t normal to find open wireless connections in NZ. The reason for this, of course, is that we pay for MB usage, …
msn.nzherald.co.nz launches
So msn and APN have linked up. But to tell the impact you have to dig a little. The msn.co.nz page is unchanged: The msn news page has better news than before: But the links give it away – here’s the one beneath the main news picture: Indeed that news page is the NZHerald news …
BillG retires
Bill Gates’ last day video – starring Hillary Clinton, Obama, Al Gore, Dave Stewart (Daily Show), Bono, JayZ, Brian Williams…..
Aha! Tower of Power
Pretty amazing: Masses of power: up to 4 TB of hard disk drives, 32GB memory and 8 30 inch monitors. That’s a bit beyond the occasional spreadsheet…
Waiting for Apple
The Apple store is being updated. What new goodies are in store?
Anti Free trade: BNZ and USA
Why is it so complicated to wire money from the USA to NZ? I know the US laws are convoluted, but BNZ certainly isn’t helping reduce barriers to free trade with these instructions: Dear Mr Wiggs Thank you for your enquiry about transferring funds from the United States to Bank of New Zealand. In order …
Was Bookabach a bargain?
AA bought into Bookabach – so what are they getting and how much is it worth? I’m arguing they got a bargain, even though I don’t know how much they paid for what % or even how much bookabach makes. Here’s the reasoning and estimation: The site looks great – very well laid out and …
New Web Hotness
Get on to the latest new hotness: Dopplr.com You can share your trips with other folk. It seems. It’s the latest brand new hotness. apparently. But it’s also trivially easy to use – a lesson in UI.
eBay abandoning insertion (listing) fees?
The murmurs are that eBay is going to be dramatically lowering listing fees and increasing final value (success) fees accordingly. Bear Stearns was the first to come up with this, and others have said that apparently this will differ by category. Total rumour, but if true it is about time. The fees eBay charges are …
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Fantastic Air NZ promotion
What can you say – is there any other airline in the world doing this sort of stuff? Air NZ’s grab-a-plane promo is an excellent idea with superb execution. It won’t last forever, so I’ve grabbed some screenshots. Here’s the ad:
The advance of VOIP
Via the economist this chart and shows VOIP taking about 20% of all international call minutes for 2006. Amazingly though regular international phone calls grew 10% between 2005 and 2006. I wonder how much was driven by falling prices, in turn driven by cheap and free VOIP.
Lance Wiggs 